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An elegant, atmospheric literary puzzle thriller that will delight equally fans of crime fiction and literary thrillers Introducing… the Twelve Detectives. The greatest sleuths in the world, gathered together for the first time at the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. See… the wonderful new work of engineering genius by Mr Gustave Eiffel! Marvel at Buffalo Bill's world-famous Wild West show! Witness the savage tribes of France's colonies gathered here for the first time! But Beware… a killer is at large who will test the genius of the Twelve to their limits. Secret societies, strange puzzles and seemingly impossible crimes await within these pages… The Paris Enigma. A classic mystery with a modern solution.

An elegant and atmospheric literary thriller that will delight fans of The Interpretation of Murder and The Shadow of the Wind

In the tradition of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Eric Larsen's The Devil in the White City comes The Paris Enigma, a gripping tale of murder and the art of crime solving. Written in a strikingly original voice, and poignantly evoking a world about to lose its innocence forever, The Paris Enigma features two detectives who find themselves in a race against time around glorious fin de si cle Paris, encountering all manner of secret societies and solving philosophical puzzles, while also trying to save a dangerously beautiful woman.

"Richly reminiscent of Umberto Eco, the headlong pace of this dark fantasy--combining elements of mystery, historical fiction, horror and the splinter genre clockpunk--will let readers swallow the entrancing story in a single gulp." --Kirkus ReviewsPablo DeSantis, the internationally acclaimed author of The Paris Enigma, is back with a wonderfully inventive, deliciously sinister thriller set in the chaos and opulence of 18th century Paris, where the malevolent remnants of the Dark Ages battle the progressive elements of the modern age. Anyone wondering where to turn after Neal Stephenson's Anathem and The Baroque Cycle or Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club will thrill for the exquisite language and deep intrigue of Pablo De Santis' Voltaire's Calligrapher.